Today, my computer is out of commission from a virus that I "fixed" yesterday. Suffice to say, I'm welcoming the day off, but I'm anxious. It's times like these you really get to see how good of leader you are. People always say that:

a [raid] is only as strong as it's weakest link

...to which I like to add...

a [raid] is weak if it cannot function without it's strongest link

Will we function as strong as when I'm there? Unlikely....

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...was leading 10s.

It's unbelievable the massive advantage that you gain by seeing the content before you have to explain it to your 25 man raid. While it's true that sometimes the 25 man's abilities aren't quite handled in the same manor as the 10s, that still doesn't change that having seen the abilities first hand gives you a totally different level of information that neither videos nor the written word can possibly transfer.

Refining Your Core

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...and yet, you still can't help, but wonder what would have happened had you made a different call.

We've had quite the journey so far in the expansion clashing with attendance issues like many others once everyone had farmed the content numerous times. This in particular has affected our Sartharion25 progress.

We've downed him with 2 drakes up numerous times now, but only a few times would I consider these kills especially pretty. It's getting closer every time though...

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...and it's not because I think it's unrealistic. I think it's a fantastic achievement and frankly, it deserves to be in the Ulduar equivalent of Heroic: Glory of the Raider.

That being said, I really hope it's not. I never really knew where as a casual guild that does a lot of raiding that we drew the line. Then we went after Immortal and I saw us cross that line.

The spirit of the achievement just does not align with the spirit of our casual atmosphere. I expect maximum...

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I was pondering, how myself being a Tank affects how I implement raid strategies. Here's how things seem to play out in my raid.

Tanks: Are given very logical jobs that are often a more challenging way of doing things allowing strong tanking to compensate for weaker play by the other roles. Overall though, tank distribution is very accurate in terms of how many tanks are required to do a given task and what tasks are best suited to what class.

DPS: Have no say. Generally...

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